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Command of troops

Here are entered works on the exercise of military leadership and power of decision by a commander over his subordinates by virtue of authority, rank, and responsibility. Works on the quality, power, and ability to lead others founded upon the prestige of position or upon ability and qualities of character are entered under Leadership.

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• Military art and science

• Leadership

• Leadership, Military
• Troops, Command of

• Responsibility of Command: How UN and NATO Commanders Influenced Airpower over Bosnia (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2003), by Mark A. Bucknam
  • PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Company Command: The Bottom Line (Washington: National Defense University Press, 1990), by John G. Meyer (PDF at dtic.mil)
• Sharing Success, Owning Failure: Preparing to Command in the Twenty-First Century Air Force (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2001), by David L. Goldfein (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)
• The Leader's Imperative: Ethics, Integrity, and Responsibility (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University, c1980), ed. by J. Carl Ficarrotta (PDF at Purdue)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Public Leadership: Perspectives and Practices (2008), ed. by Paul 't Hart and John Uhr (PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)
• Leap of Reason: Managing to Outcomes in an Era of Scarcity (Washington: Venture Philanthropy Partners, c2011), by Mario Morino, ed. by Lowell Weiss and Cheryl Collins, contrib. by Carol Thompson Cole, Lynn Taliento, Jonathan Law, Laura Callanan, Isaac Castillo, David E. Hunter, Tynesia Boyea Robinson, Kristin A. Moore, Karen E. Walker, David Murphey, Patricia Brantley, and Ethan D. Schafer (PDF with commentary at leapofreason.org)
• Sharing Success, Owning Failure: Preparing to Command in the Twenty-First Century Air Force (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2001), by David L. Goldfein (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)
• The Leader's Imperative: Ethics, Integrity, and Responsibility (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University, c1980), ed. by J. Carl Ficarrotta (PDF at Purdue)
• Situational Factors in Leadership (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University, c1949), by John K. Hemphill (page images at HathiTrust)
• From Joseph Bensman: Essays on Modern Society (Knoxville: Newfound Press, c2014), by Joseph Bensman, ed. by Robert Jackall and Duffy Graham (PDF at Tennessee)
• Captains and Kings (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1925), by André Maurois, trans. by J. Lewis May (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cohesion: The Human Element in Combat (4th printing, 1993), by William Darryl Henderson (PDF files at af.mil)
• Little Leads to Leadership (Boston: W. A. Wilde Co., c1931), by Frank H. Cheley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prescription Leadership: The 9 Practical Skills Needed for Health Professionals to Thrive in the 21st Century, by Harry Van Bommel, Beverley Powell-Vinden, Michèle Catherine Gantois Chaban, Elizabeth Latimer, and Larry Lewis (HTML at carelibrary.com)

• The Negro Leadership Class (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, c1963), by Daniel C. Thompson, contrib. by Martin Luther King (page images at HathiTrust)

• From Revolutionary Cadres to Party Technocrats in Socialist China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Hong Yung Lee (HTML at UC Press)

• The Medieval Chinese Oligarchy (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, c1977), by David G. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Chinese Local Elites and Patterns of Dominance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), ed. by Joseph W. Esherick (HTML at UC Press)

• Comprehending and Confronting Antisemitism: A Multi-Faceted Approach (An End to Antisemitism v1; Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, c2019), ed. by Armin Lange, Kerstin Mayerhofer, Dina Porat, and Lawrence H. Schiffman (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• Leadership and Growth (Washington: Commission on Growth and Development; World Bank, c2010), ed. by David W. Brady and Michael Spence (PDF with commentary at worldbank.org)

• The Anatomy of Ethical Leadership: To Lead Our Organizations in a Conscientious and Authentic Manner (c2011), by Lyse Langlois, trans. by Della Marcus (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Library Leadership and Management (pre-2009 issues published as Library Administration and Management; issues online 2005-) (partial serial archives)

• Warlike and Peaceful Societies: The Interaction of Genes and Culture (Cambridge, UK et al.: Open Book Publishers, c2017), by Agner Fog (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Imamate and Leadership: Lessons on Islamic Doctrine, by Mujtaba Musavi Lari, trans. by Hamid Algar (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)

• Warlike and Peaceful Societies: The Interaction of Genes and Culture (Cambridge, UK et al.: Open Book Publishers, c2017), by Agner Fog (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Environmental Leadership Capacity Building in Higher Education: Experience and Lessons from Asian Program for Incubation of Environmental Leaders (c2013), ed. by Takashi Mino and Keisuke Hanaki (multiple formats with commentary at SpringerLink)

• Public Values Leadership: Striving to Achieve Democratic Ideals (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021), by Barry Bozeman and Michael M. Crow (multiple formats with commentary at Project Muse)
• Lorenz on Leadership: Lessons on Effectively Leading People, Teams, and Organizations (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2012), by Stephen R. Lorenz (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)
• Eisenhower's Legacy: The Report of the Legacy Committee on Dwight David Eisenhower's Military Achievements, Presidential Accomplishments, and Lifetime of Public Service (2003), by Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Committee (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Emancipation's Daughters: Reimagining Black Femininity and the National Body (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2021), by Riché Richardson (PDF at OAPEN)

• The Perils and Prospects of Southern Black Leadership: Gordon Blaine Hancock, 1884-1970 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, c1977), by Raymond Gavins (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Eternal Dissident: Rabbi Leonard I. Beerman and the Radical Imperative to Think and Act (Oakland: University of California Press, c2018), by Leonard I. Beerman, ed. by David N. Myers (multiple formats with commentary at luminosoa.org)

• The Presidential Agenda: Sources of Executive Influence in Congress (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Roger T. Larocca (PDF at Ohio State)

• Abraham Lincoln: A Legacy of Freedom (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2008), ed. by George Clack and Michael Jay Friedman (PDF at fdlp.gov)

• Leading From The Heart: Lifetime Reflections on Spiritual Development, by Robert Boyd Munger (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Participatory Politics: Next-Generation Tactics to Remake Public Spheres (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2014), by Elisabeth Soep (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Public Leadership: Perspectives and Practices (2008), ed. by Paul 't Hart and John Uhr (PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)

• African Youth on the Information Highway: Participation and Leadership in Community Development, ed. by Osita Ogbu and Paschal Mihyo (PDF and HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)

• No Straight Lines: Local Leadership and the Path from Government to Governance in Small Cities (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2018), ed. by Terry Kading (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• The Workshop for Morality: The Islamic Creativity of Pesantren Daarut Tauhid in Bandung, Java (2008), by Dindin Solahudin (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• Elite Discourse and Racism (Newbury Park, CA et al: Sage Publications, c1993), by Teun A. van Dijk (PDF at discourses.org)
• Discovering National Elites: A Manual of Methods for Discovering the Leadership of a Society and Its Vulnerabilities to Propaganda, by Alfred De Grazia, contrib. by Paul Deutschmann and Floyd Hunter (HTML at grazian-archive.com)
• Nobility and Analogous Traditional Elites in the Allocutions of Pius XII, by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira (HTML with commentary at tfp.org)

• Nation Work: Asian Elites and National Identities (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), ed. by Timothy Brook and Andre Schmid (page images at HathiTrust)

• European Elites and Ideas of Empire, 1917-1957 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, c2016), by Dina Gusejnova
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• From East Germans to Germans?: The New Postcommunist Elites (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1999), by Jennifer A. Yoder (page images at HathiTrust)

• Deepening Democracy in Latin America (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1998), ed. by Kurt von Mettenheim and James M. Malloy (page images at Pitt)

• Public Leadership: Perspectives and Practices (2008), ed. by Paul 't Hart and John Uhr (PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)
• To Nonviolent Political Science: From Seasons of Violence (1993), by Glenn D. Paige (PDF with commentary at globalnonviolence.org)
• Framing the Global Economic Downturn: Crisis Rhetoric and the Politics of Recessions (2009), ed. by Paul 't Hart and Karen Tindall (PDF and HTML with commentary at ANU E Press)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.